Last time in these pages, I wrote about the sharp division within George Washington’s Presidential administration, that between Alexander Hamilton, founder of the Federalist Party, and Thomas ...

Someone recently described the Declaration of Independence as the greatest breakup letter ever written. One could say that the audacious statement crafted by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin ...

He wrote to Abigail that "the second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America." The ...

When Americans celebrate the Fourth of July, we imagine fireworks, flags and a dramatic reading of the Declaration of ...

This Father’s Day, let us honor John Adams as a Founding Father and a father who wanted to secure a bright future for his children.

John suffered through the heartbreak of outliving most of his children. His only surviving daughter, Abigail , died of breast cancer in 1813 at age 48 in the family home; his second son, Charles ...

John and Abigail Adams’s letters provide an extraordinary window on the revolt brewing 250 years ago. ... as Thomas Jefferson later put it, “our Lives, our Fortunes, ...

Can the fraught relationship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams help heal our own hyper ... have explained ourselves to each other,” Adams wrote to Jefferson in 1813. ... a letter from Adams.

Just-discovered letters herald the significance of an unsung Revolutionary woman, ... Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, ... 1813—fills in the details John Adams sought.

So while John Adams, in Philadelphia, did not refrain from criticizing Jefferson in his January 6, 1794, letter to Abigail, in Massachusetts, he did so with care. Jefferson went off Yesterday, and ...

Courtesy The History Channel/Glass Entertainment Group "Thomas Jefferson," a new three-night docuseries on the History Channel, premieres Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, on Presidents Day.

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding ...